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Replying to: richard64 (Jun 09, 2008 7:28 am) One was propped up on a cactus and the other on a yucca tree and one says to the other: "Yeah, but it's a dry heat." 
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touched a nerve, my apologies. Everyone is allowed to be more comfortable in a lighter "leather" car, than a dark color leather. Here in Texas, [maybe I should have qualified for humidity] the cream beige leather in a 5 series, is no more cooler than the black leather in the same car. Make sense? This is with all due respect to those of you who don't sit in 3-5 different cars everyday................................ I'm sure BR's experience is different in the climate he's in.
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Replying to: isellhondas (Jun 08, 2008 3:40 pm) Thinking about this also I doubt the interior color makes a differance. It is the outside color of the car that attracts the sun. The black soaks in the heat where the light or white colors reflects the heat...  Either way it hit 95 gegrees here yesterday and every car I got into was scorching. I think I lost 5 pounds just from sweating perfusely after entering some of the cars  GP
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Replying to: richard64 (Jun 09, 2008 7:28 am)
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Replying to: dhamilton (Jun 09, 2008 7:53 am) Brief press release The lower humidity and special glass could wipe out most of that five degree delta.
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Replying to: richard64 (Jun 09, 2008 7:28 am) 80 degree is HOT. In western Washington our highs this past week have been in the mid to upper 50’s. At 1:00AM it’s like maybe 48. I think we are in for a cold, wet summer.
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Replying to: greanpea68 (Jun 09, 2008 8:01 am) Exterior color should have very little effect on temperature inside a car. Yes, the outside of a dark colored vehicle may get hotter than the outside of a light colored vehicle but the exterior is, by and large, well insulated from the interior. I think those articles I listed earlier also address this issue. tidester, host SUVs and Smart Shopper |
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Replying to: jmonroe (Jun 09, 2008 7:08 am) BTW, we're enjoying daytime highs in the 60s and may break 70 this week. Overnight lows are still hovering around the freezing point. It's delightful.  tidester, host SUVs and Smart Shopper
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Replying to: mattandi (Jun 09, 2008 8:07 am) I really don't like the heat, but I guess they would appreciate me finishing the job and getting that car off those stands. I worked with a guy back in the 70’s who had a next door neighbor who left his car on jack stands overnight. Just like you his intentions were good but the auto parts didn’t have the hold down pins that he realized were bad when he started to do the rear brakes so the guy had to leave it there because he didn’t want to replace the rusted pins just to move the car into the garage. Thereby having to do the brake job twice. This prankster co-worker jacked the car up and set the drums on a couple 2x6 at 2 AM. He said he broke into a cold sweat as he was lowering the last drum to the wood. You see, that’s when he remembered that his neighbor was a great outdoors man and almost always hit what he was aiming at.  First thing the following Sunday morning his neighbor came over and told him about the car being on 2x6’s and wanted to know if he had heard anything during the night? When he told him what he had done his neighbor said, “I thought you knew better than to do something like that. At that hour in the morning I’d have shot, looked to see if I dropped it, then gone out in the morning to identify if it was a head or body hit”  Believe it or not he said he’d never do something like that again. FWIW, I routinely replaced the hold down pins when I did a brake job on those old cars. There is no sense in having new shoes fall into the drums at highway speeds and ruin your day and the drums. Now, if this co-workers neighbor had bought all the parts before starting the job he would have prevented my co-worker having a cold sweat. jmonroe |
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Replying to: british_rover (Jun 09, 2008 8:49 am) The 335i droptop I drove for a couple of weeks had a special coating on the leather seats that kept them cool even in direct sunlight. BMW calls it "Sun-Reflective Technology" and it works quite well in my experience. |
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